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April 30 - Words That Build, Lives That Shine · Bible Chat Devotional

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  Welcome to Bible Chat, where we have devotional conversations
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  rooted in scripture and relevant for today, April 30th.
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  Words that build lives that shine.
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  Your words can either add weight to someone's burden or help them
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  breathe again. Proverbs chapter 15 verses 7 to
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  8 says the lips of the wise spread knowledge and reminds us
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  that the prayer of the upright is acceptable to the Lord.
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  God cares about both what comes out of our mouths to people and
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  what rises from our hearts to Him.
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  Romans chapter 15 verse 5 asks the God of endurance and
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  encouragement to help believers live in harmony with one
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  another. Romans chapter 16, verse 17
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  warns us to watch out for those who cause division and create
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  obstacles against the truth. Together, these passages remind
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  us that followers of Jesus are called to be people of life,
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  unity and sincere prayer. That matters because division is
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  easy. Gossip is easy, sarcasm is easy,
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  complaining is easy. But encouragement takes
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  intention. Harmony takes humility.
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  Prayer takes sincerity. God is not looking for empty
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  religious performance. While our words tear people
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  down, He wants hearts that are upright, mouths that speak
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  wisdom, and lives that shine with love.
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  Think about your conversations lately, your texts, your posts,
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  your comments, your tone at home.
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  Are your words spreading knowledge, peace, and
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  encouragement, or are they feeding drama, negativity, and
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  division? You do not have to speak
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  perfectly, but you can surrender your speech to God.
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  You can ask Him to make your words more thoughtful.
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  You can choose prayer over performance and unity over
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  conflict. In a world full of noise, a wise
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  and gracious voice stands out. Let your words build.
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  Let your prayers be sincere. Let your life shine in a way
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  that honors the God who hears you.
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  Let's pray. Heavenly Father, thank you for
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  hearing my prayers and caring about my words.
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  Help me speak with wisdom, encouragement, and grace.
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  Keep me from division, gossip, and empty performance.
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  Teach me to live in harmony with others and to honor You and what
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  I say, how I pray and how I love in Jesus name, Amen.
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  Now I invite you to spend time with God in today's three-year
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  Bible reading plan. Proverbs chapter 15 verses 7 to
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  9 World English Bible. The lips of the wise spread
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  knowledge. Not so with the heart of fools.
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  The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but
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  the prayer of the upright is His delight.
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  The way of the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but he
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  loves him who follows after righteousness.
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  Romans, chapters 15 to 16, World English Bible.
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  Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak,
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  and not to please ourselves. Let each one of us please his
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  neighbor for that which is good to be building him up.
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  For even Christ didn't please himself.
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  But as it is written, the reproaches of those who
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  reproached you fell on me. For whatever things were written
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  before, were written for our learning, that through
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  perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures
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  we might have hope. Now the God of perseverance and
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  of encouragement grant you to be of the same mind with one
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  another, according to Christ Jesus, that with 1 accord you
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  may with one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
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  Christ. Therefore accept one another,
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  even as Christ also accepted you, to the glory of God.
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  Now I say that Christ has been made a servant of the
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  circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the
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  promises given to the Father's, and that the Gentiles might
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  glorify God for His mercy as it is written.
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  Therefore I will give praise to you among the Gentiles, and sing
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  to your name. Again he says, Rejoice you
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  Gentiles, with his people. Again, praise the Lord, all you
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  Gentiles, let all the peoples praise him.
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  Again, Isaiah says there will be the root of Jesse, he who arises
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  to rule over the Gentiles. In him the Gentiles will hope.
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  Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace, and
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  believing that you may abound in hope in the power of the Holy
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  Spirit. I myself am also persuaded about
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  you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness,
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  filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.
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  But I write the more boldly to you in part as reminding you,
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  because of the grace that was given to me by God, that I
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  should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving
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  as a priest of the good news of God, that the offering up of the
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  Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the
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  Holy Spirit. I have therefore my boasting in
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  Christ Jesus in things pertaining to God, for I will
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  not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked
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  through me for the obedience of the Gentiles by word and deed,
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  in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of God's
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  Spirit. So that from Jerusalem and
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  around, as far as to Illyricum, I have fully preached the good
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  news of Christ. Yes, making it my aim to preach
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  the good news, not where Christ was already named, that I might
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  not build on another's foundation, but as it is
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  written. They will see to whom no news of
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  Him came. They who haven't heard will
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  understand. Therefore also I was hindered
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  these many times from coming to you, but now no longer having
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  any place in these regions and having these many years of
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  longing to come to you, whenever I travel to Spain, I will come
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  to you. For I hope to see you on my
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  journey and to be helped on my way there by you.
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  If first I may enjoy your company for a while, but now I
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  say I am going to Jerusalem, serving the Saints.
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  For it has been the good pleasure of Macedonia and Achaea
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  to make a certain contribution for the poor among the Saints
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  who are at Jerusalem. Yes, it has been their good
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  pleasure, and they are their debtors.
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  For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their
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  spiritual things, they owe it to them also to serve them in
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  material things. When, therefore, I have
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  accomplished this and have sealed to them this fruit, I
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  will go on by way of you to Spain.
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  I know that when I come to you I will come in the fullness of the
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  blessing of the good news of Christ.
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  Now I beg you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the
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  love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your
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  prayers to God for me, that I may be delivered from those who
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  are disobedient in Judea, and that my service which I have for
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  Jerusalem may be acceptable to the Saints, that I may come to
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  you in joy through the will of God, and together with you find
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  rest. Now the God of peace be with you
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  all, Amen. I commend to you Phoebe, our
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  sister, who is a servant of the assembly that is at sanctuary,
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  that you receive her in the Lord in a way worthy of the Saints,
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  and that you assist her in whatever matter she may need
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  from you. For she herself also has been a
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  helper of many and of my own self.
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  Greet Priska and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,
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  who risk their own necks for my life, to whom not only I give
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  thanks, but also all the assemblies of the Gentiles.
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  Greet the assembly that is in their house.
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  Greet Epinetus, my beloved, who is the first fruits of Achaea to
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  Christ. Greet Mary, who labored much for
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  us. Greet Andronicus and Junia, my
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  relatives and my fellow prisoners, who are notable among
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  the apostles who are also in Christ before me.
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  Greet Amplyas my beloved in the Lord.
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  Greet urbanists, our fellow worker in Christ and stashes, my
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  beloved. Greet Apels, the approved in
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  Christ. Greet those who are of the
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  household of Aristobulus. Greet Herodian, my kinsman.
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  Greet them of the household of Narcissus, who are in the Lord.
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  Greet Trifina and Trifosa, who labor in the Lord.
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  Greet persists the beloved who labored much in the Lord.
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  Greet Rufus, the chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine.
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  Greet asynchronous Phlegon, Hermes, Petrobas, Hermes, and
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  the brothers who are with them. Greet Phyllagus and Julia,
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  Nerius and his sister, and Olympus and all the Saints who
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  are with them. Greet one another with a holy
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  kiss. The assemblies of Christ greet
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  you. Now I beg you, brothers, look
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  out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of
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  stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and
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  turn away from them. For those who are such don't
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  serve our Lord Jesus Christ but their own belly, and by their
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  smooth and flattering speech they deceive the hearts of the
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  innocent. For your obedience has become
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  known to all. I rejoice therefore over you,
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  but I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but innocent
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  in that which is evil. And the God of peace will
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  quickly crush Satan under your feet.
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  The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
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  Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you as De Lucius, Jason
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  and Saucipater, my relatives. I, Tertius, who write the
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  letter, greet you in the Lord. Gaius, my host and host of the
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  whole assembly, greets you. Erastus, the treasurer of the
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  city, greets you, as does Quartus the brother.
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  The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.
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